M and I headed back to Le Pigeon (yep, third time this week, we LOVE it there). We get a half liter of some southern French rose (delightful).M orders up the burger (which I had last week). It still looks fantastic, with it's heirloom tomato, slaw, and pickled onion garnishes. Mmmm. Instead of the potatoes, M gets a little salad. Cornichons, capers, and the like. Very nice.
I'm not terribly hungry, so I order up the pig's tail. Yep, sounds crazy, but everyone there said it was great, Gabriel, Leif, the whole crew. It came with the same salad M got with the burger. I was warned, but also ordered the buttermilk dressed mixed greens too. It ended up being an excess of lettuce. So, the pig's tail was breaded and then pan fried in butter. The base (the part that would have been nearest to the pig's body) was very fatty, but as I got toward the tip, less fat and more meat. The skin was there too. It was an amazingly tasty gelatinous pile of food. Gabriel said I should just dig in to it with my hands, and he was right. I tore the segments apart, vertebrae by tiny vertebrae, and nibbled all the goodness off each piece.
For dessert, we got our fave, the apricot honey cornbread with bacon and maple ice cream. We also tried that night's new dessert, the peach upside down cake. Very good, but it was no match for the cornbread. We had a 375 ml of Moscato d'Asti as well.
Again, a truly fantastic meal. If you haven't been, do yourself a favor and check it out.
2 comments:
I had a very similar meal there recently. Quite good. Some little complaints here and there, but overall I'm very pleased with this place. And that dessert is fantastic. I'm not one for weirdness for weirdness's sake, but that dessert just works.
So is the tail kinda like a tasty little baby back rib? Is the meat chewy...stringy?
My mother-in-law's best friend is visiting this Sunday - I'm going to try to get the gang to come here for brunch on your good word(s) and what I've been reading on the Internets.
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